Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...cabin in Winston County, Alabama, we identified exact locations of all but thirty-one singings, complete with street names and numbers and, most importantly, GPS coordinates. This unified dataset with precise...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in voting laws. In 1972, Texas, Arizona, Alaska, and a few local jurisdictions in five other states were added due to more recent voting rights problems.1For more information about covered...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...world: Diff'rent Strokes, What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son, Do the Right Thing, even Toni Morrison's Beloved: "We keep the name—it's so totally, invitingly postracial—but make the eponymous ghost more Casper-like."2Colson Whitehead, "The Year of Living...
Cajun South Louisiana
...discovered shrimp and crawfish, making a compelling cuisine along the way. They came into a slave society, and after 1780 a significant number of them began to gain slaves. Most...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...desirable food.16Philip Henry Gosse, Letters From Alabama (U.S.) Chiefly Relating to Natural History (London: Morgan and Chase, 1859), 234, https://archive.org/details/lettersfromalab00goss/page/234/mode/2up. Significantly, English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, who recorded the overseer's...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...(Lowell Mason's brother, Timothy, moved to Cincinnati (Bealle, 29)), it put down firm roots in regions of the South. As immigrants moved southward from Pennsylvania into Virginia and the Carolinas,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...his mother. In the poem “Vampires,” for example, which you select, he writes “a song like every song for the dead” or in “For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning,” ...
Good-Bye to All That?
...with the Stars or fondling an iPhone is a lot more relaxing than confronting the cynical, money-driven political system in Washington and Raleigh. Millions of voters seem convinced that the...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...been eclipsed by other exclusive spaces for scientists and engineers, such as Cupertino, Mountainview, and Bethesda. Nonetheless, Oak Ridge remains an active monument to an abiding faith that compartmentalized science...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in the southeast continue to be produced, though the genre begins to show signs of exhaustion as its authors find it more and more difficult to convincingly present captive, dispossessed...